Quran glossary · draft

الوسوسة في الداخل

concealed inner prompting

A deceptive source or the self places a quiet recurring prompt within a person's inward awareness.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 5

Roots: وسوس

Lemmas: وسوس · وسواس

Forms: وَسْوَسَ · تُوَسْوِسُ · وَسْوَاسِ · يُوَسْوِسُ

Occurrence examples (5 of 5)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 5.

7:20

فَوَسْوَسَ لَهُمَا ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ لِيُبْدِىَ لَهُمَا مَا وُۥرِىَ عَنْهُمَا مِن سَوْءَٰتِهِمَا وَقَالَ مَا نَهَىٰكُمَا رَبُّكُمَا عَنْ هَٰذِهِ ٱلشَّجَرَةِ إِلَّآ أَن تَكُونَا مَلَكَيْنِ أَوْ تَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلْخَٰلِدِينَ

20:120

فَوَسْوَسَ إِلَيْهِ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ قَالَ يَٰٓـَٔادَمُ هَلْ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَىٰ شَجَرَةِ ٱلْخُلْدِ وَمُلْكٍ لَّا يَبْلَىٰ

50:16

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِۦ نَفْسُهُۥ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ ٱلْوَرِيدِ

114:4

مِن شَرِّ ٱلْوَسْوَاسِ ٱلْخَنَّاسِ

114:5

ٱلَّذِى يُوَسْوِسُ فِى صُدُورِ ٱلنَّاسِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Reviewed all five frozen occurrences on the complete 100-item page. There are no protected meanings, compacted proposals, failure candidates, or aligned witness variants on the target rows. The adversary privately introduces deceptive speech to the pair and to Adam, the human self produces inward prompting known to God, and the retreating whisperer acts within people's chests. The agent noun profiles the source of the same concealed recurrent prompting.